Film Articles: May 2008

Prince Caspian includes mêlée after mêlée, as well as recriminations against the commander in chief who goes in without an exit strategy or even much of a battle plan.

Anguished and ambitious, the man-boy writers in Joachim Trier's Reprise imagine themselves into alternate lives.

The story Roy tells reflects both their desires, revealed throughout The Fall in brilliantly colored images.

Adam Hootnick's trenchant, intelligent documentary, Unsettled, concerns the forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from Gaza and the West Bank in 2005.

Inspired by the mostly beloved late '60s Japanese cartoon, Speed Racer is loud, large, and proudly crass.

In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue.

In What Happens in Vegas, Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love.

As cute and inoffensive and eventually uplifting as Then She Found Me may be, it is also a formulaic exercise.

In Hou Hsiao-hsien's first French film, interactions are mirrored and refracted, images of images, reflections of longing.

In Son of Rambo, big-hearted and open-minded Mary is, much more than Rambo, a worthy inspiration for her son.

If she lived in another movie, you'd almost feel sorry for Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But she's trapped in the execrable Made of Honor, which insists that she behave nearly as inanely as her two suitors.

Errol Morris' new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, remembers the pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release.

For all Tony's new understanding of "peace," the fact that Iron Man is in fact a weapon allows the film to do what summer movies must do: clanking and bashing, zooming, shooting, and exploding.